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I am a software engineer at Microsoft, working on planet-scale distributed systems in the Azure Storage team. I help to provide limitless data storage to Microsoft's most demanding customers. I also work on AI agents, trying to drive developer productivity.

Previously, I was a solo AI engineer at the unicorn startup, Nerdio. I worked on AssistPro (mentioned in Forbes), AnalyticsPro (Kusto Query Language code generator tool), Nerdio Copilot, which has led to Nerdio landing on CRN's Top AI 100 list for 2024 and 2025.

My earlier research on low-resource NLP earned the first spot at ACL/COLING workshops; details live on my Google Scholar.

Off the clock I train in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, perform improv, write and act in German plays, and travel whenever I can.